composer who brings to her music feverish imagination, impeccable musicianship, complexity, versatility, unbridled joy, and fearlessness, Laura Karpman’s music is, in the words of George Manahan, music director of New York City Opera, "a rare combination of heart and groin."

  Named one of the most important women in Hollywood by Variety Magazine, Karpman’s genre bending film, television, and video game scores, ranging from sci-fi Americana to neo-noir, racing action adventure to ambient sound design, world fusion to modernist orchestral colors, have garnered her four Emmys and numerous nominations. Her many credits include Spielberg’s TAKEN, ODYSSEY 5 for Showtime, MASTERS OF SCIENCE FICTION for ABC, CRAFT IN AMERICA for PBS, MAN IN THE CHAIR starring Christopher Plummer, THE ANNIHILATION OF FISH starring Lynn Redgrave and James Earl Jones, and THE TOURNAMENT for The Weinstein Company.

  Equally at home in the concert hall, Karpman has received commissions from The Cabrillo Festival Orchestra, The Juilliard School, The Czech National Symphony Orchestra, among others. Her multimedia opera ASK YOUR MAMA, commissioned by Carnegie Hall and written for Jessye Norman, The Roots, Nnenna Freelon, d’Adre Aziza, and orchestra, on a text by Langston Hughes, premiered to critical acclaim. Karpman is a professor at UCLA in the School of Theater, Film, and Television.

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